{"id":193648,"date":"2016-02-26T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=193648"},"modified":"2016-02-26T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T15:09:31","slug":"sotnghana-5-things-mahama-said-about-health-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=193648","title":{"rendered":"SOTNGhana: 5 things Mahama said about health [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Dramani Mahama was in Parliament on Thursday February 25, 2016, to deliver the State of the Nation Address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the many sectors he spoke about, he enumerated a\u00a0number of interventions and projects carried out\u00a0by government to improve the country\u2019s health sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama said\u00a0currently the National Health Insurance Scheme&#8217;s (NHIS) subscription, has increased from 597,000 members in 2005, to 11.2 million in 2015, representing 41% of the country&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This he said\u00a0proved the\u00a0confidence reposed in the scheme by Ghanaians and\u00a0in the health sector, contrary to suggestions that the scheme is collapsing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama also said Ghanaians are living longer by 14 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Below is an infographic of what the President said about the health sector:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-193657 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/What-Mahama-said-on-Health-683x1024.png\" alt=\"What Mahama said on Health\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama was in Parliament on Thursday February 25, 2016, to deliver the State of the Nation Address. Among the many sectors he spoke about, he enumerated a\u00a0number of interventions and projects carried out\u00a0by government to improve the country\u2019s health sector. President Mahama said\u00a0currently the National Health Insurance Scheme&#8217;s (NHIS) subscription, has increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2419,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-infographics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}